"Where is all the good writing about games?"
When Valve started to put ‘director commentary’ into their games, it opened the conversation of game design to a wider audience. Personally, it allowed me to enjoy the game even more than my first playthrough. It’s a wonderful bonus, and I’m very…
Straight into This Week In Videogame Blogging with some links to stuff I missed last week. Peter Kirn of create digital music interviews indie game ‘Osmos’ creators. Michel McBride talks audio-visuals and the game Audiosurf: a sure-fire way to get this author’s…
Critical Distance is a community driven blog and as such we rely on contributors for our posts. Until now we have solicited contributions by invitation only; however we would now like to open it up and invite anyone with an interest in…
Dear Critical Distance Readers, Contributors and Interested Parties, What is Critical Distance? What is its purpose and what is its aim? What gap in the field, what niche of interest, does it serve to fill? These are questions I have been asking…
I was searching my long list of bookmarked webpages earlier today and came across this entry from Corvus Elrod’s Man Bytes Blog. In ‘Amnesia Alternatives’ Corvus outlines two ways that a storyteller (read: anyone setting up their game) can overcome the initial…
Khoi Vin has written an excellent post calling for more criticism within the field of graphic design. The entire piece is surprisingly relevant to the current state of video game criticism: Like it or not, you can't have a serious discourse about…
Jason Della Rocca, outgoing head of the Independent Games Developers Association, wrote a mini-rant for the GDC developer's rant which he then posted to his blog. While it's been described as a 'back-handed apology' he addresses an issue that is very relevant…